Changelog

Welcome to the Electric Pants changelog! Here you’ll find a record of updates, new features, improvements, and bug fixes. We maintain this changelog so you can easily track what’s new and see how the app evolves.

v1.1 — Share and Save (January 2026)

A major update focused on getting content into Electric Pants and keeping track of what matters.

New Features

  • Home Screen Widgets — See your unread count and latest articles right from your home screen
  • Share Extension — Subscribe to feeds directly from Safari’s share sheet with automatic RSS discovery
  • Saved Articles — Bookmark articles to read later with a dedicated Saved tab
  • OPML Export — Export your feed subscriptions for backup or migration to other apps
  • New Onboarding Experience — Beautiful welcome flow with curated starter feeds to get you started
  • Enhanced Discovery — Browse a curated catalog and search for RSS feeds, subreddits, podcasts, YouTube channels, and Mastodon accounts
  • YouTube Video Support — Native embedded YouTube player for video content
  • Fullscreen Video — Full-screen playback with native controls and Picture-in-Picture support

Improvements

  • Video thumbnail prefetching for smoother scrolling
  • Reddit crosspost support
  • New Art and Design feeds category in Discover
  • Improved scroll performance and memory management
  • Better video card layouts and consistency

v1.0 — Initial Release (January 2026)

The first release of Electric Pants — your mindful RSS reader for iPhone and iPad.

Features

  • RSS and Atom feed support — Subscribe to feeds from your favorite websites and blogs
  • Reddit community support — Add subreddits to your feed alongside traditional RSS sources
  • Beautiful card-based timeline — Rich layouts for text, images, videos, and galleries
  • Custom folders — Organize feeds with custom colors and icons
  • “All Caught Up” screen — Know when you’re done reading (a feature most apps hide from you)
  • Clean article reader — Distraction-free reading with automatic article extraction
  • Dark mode — Beautiful dark theme with warm, comfortable colors
  • OPML import — Easy migration from other RSS readers
  • Pull-to-refresh — With progress tracking for multiple feeds
  • Native iOS and iPadOS experience — Built with SwiftUI for optimal performance

Philosophy

Electric Pants is built on a simple idea: finite by design. When you’ve read your articles, you’re done. No infinite scroll. No algorithmic manipulation. Just the content you chose, presented beautifully.

Stop doom scrolling. Start reading.

Acknowledgments

Electric Pants is made possible by the open source community and the creators who publish RSS feeds. Thank you for keeping the open web alive.